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In our world today, there seems to be an increase in the prevalence of rape more than before, although it might have been because of the increase awareness of ways out and increase reportings bringing up parts of the iceberg buried in water. Now everyone's tentacles are more sensitive to prevention and reporting of rapes, many thanks to various campaigns all over the world. Rape like every other negative actions surely has its negative consequences, yet more on the person that was the victim than on the rapist. It's a matter of a few minutes of enjoyment for one and a life-time damage for the other. The major aspect of life that's so much affected in this damage is health. Health at all its levels: physical (body) mental (mind) and social (relationships) is usually gravely affected. The damages done is more grievous and likely to be on a long term effects if the case is not properly handled by a prompt report to a health facility or a facility that handles rape for example ...

The skin is the largest organ of the body, covering the whole body surfaces from the scalp to the feet. It is the 1st thing to notice on sighting someone. In a very subtle way, the skin has a way of telling someone's age, nutritional status, hemodynamic status(whether someone has enough red blood cells), and presence of an ongoing disease or illness.  The skin has so many functions ranging from physiological functions like protection from the sun and outside world, salt and water balance, production of vitamin D to cosmetic functions like beauty and racial differentiation. Absence of skin, skin diseases or skin failure due to one disease or the other can be disastrous and may lead to death. Hence the skin should be taken care of and its integrity maintained. Here are ways you can care for your skin.  Eat a balanced diet: Not many people understand that the skin could be a reflection of nutritional status. Avoid junks, go for more nutritious food.  Fruits and vegetables ar...

The word infertility simply means not fertile, to be fertile means to be able to give birth or reproduce or bring up one's kind. Infertility is a medical condition that entails the inability of a couple  to achieve conception after one year of regular unprotected intravaginal intercourse. Infertility is one major problem that puts strain on marriages and also a major home breaker anywhere in the world.     Infertility is generally of 2 types, when a woman has never been pregnant, it is termed primary infertility while if a woman has had a child before or has ever been pregnant regardless of the outcome but later finds it difficult to get pregnant, we say she has secondary infertility. Whether at the primary level or secondary level, infertility is usually a burden on the shoulder of affected women.     The society cast a stone of suspicion and barton of responsibility on the women alone. In most cases and in most cultures, the woman is always blamed be...

Urinary incontinence:  Lack of control over passage of urine.  Incontinence is lack of voluntary control over urine, when an individual can not by him or her self control the time to urinate and it seems the body dictates which time that may not be appropriate and acceptable for that individual. In children (Infants and younger toddlers) incontinence may be allowed because they have not yet developed well their voluntary nervous system. When it happens in an adult, we raise so much eye brows and question it. There are different categories of lack of control over urine passage (incontinence). When one cannot delay or postpone urination (urge incontinence), when urine comes out after sneezing, laughing, carrying a heavy load or coughing (stress incontinence), when one cannot even hold urine at all probably due to a dysfunction of the nerves controlling the bladder, and there are many others too.  This write up will be focusing more on stress incontinence. Let me quickly say...

Pregnancy is a physiological state in which a woman carries one or more babies in her womb over a specified period of time (the normal between 37 to 40weeks) after which she delivers and carries the product in her arms. It is an immunosuppressive state involving the whole systems of the body.  The events from the day one to the last day of pregnancy differ from one woman to another, generally speaking the most of women find the 1st trimester (1st 3 months) a bit challenging due to the morning sickness, the sudden but later gradual changes they experience in their body system and the psychological burden that may vary from one woman to another depending on the circumstances that surround the pregnancy.  The second trimester (2nd 3 months) is usually a period of peace and psychological well-being for the woman as she starts getting bonded to the fetus which would have started moving (kicking) from about 16-18 weeks of gestational age. Again, these differ from woman to woman....

Myths and facts surrounding infertility  Generally, the human mind has the power of building concepts both real and unreal in most cases, especially the ones over which it does not have a control.  Here are the common myths with the absolute facts.  Myth: You need to have sex after ovulation has occurred  Fact: Judging by the Knowledge of when ovulation takes place and especially the viability of the ovum, it is a fact that it may be too late if sex comes after ovulation. How accurate do you think you will be on tracking ovulation? How possibly do you think the sperm will fertilize the egg at that time? Best thing is to have regular sex so sperm is in the tract at ovulation.  Myth: Ovulation occurs on day 14 Fact: This is not accurate as cycles change even in someone with a normal 28 days cycle, only the days between ovulation and Menstruation is fairly constant (14days). Ovulation rather occurs 14 days backwards from the day your flow starts. Myth: If you ...